Block settings reference

Settings live in Online Store → Themes → Customize, on the page holding the block. Changes preview live and apply when you Save.

Heading

Setting	Default	What it does
Heading	Press releases	The title above the list. Clear it to hide it.
Subheading	Latest news and updates	The line beneath. Clear it to hide it.
Detail page URL	blank	Overrides where cards link to. Leave blank — blank uses the app’s own detail page, which is what you want.

Colours

Setting	Default	What it does
Accent colour	blank	Used for the category, the “Read more” link and focus outlines. Blank inherits from your theme, which is usually the better choice. See Theme styling.

Scheduling

Setting	Default	What it does
Hide releases dated in the future	on	Keeps a scheduled release off the storefront until its date arrives. Turning this off makes future-dated releases visible immediately. See Dates and scheduling.

Read more link

Setting	Default	What it does
Show “Read more” on each card	on	The whole card is clickable either way; this adds an explicit link.
Read more text	Read more	Reword it — Read the full release, Details.

Search and filter

Setting	Default	What it does
Show search box	on	Filters loaded releases by title. Sits in the row beside the heading.
Show category filter	on	Filters by category. Lives in the filter popup.
Show sort order control	on	Lets a visitor switch between most recent and oldest first. Lives in the filter popup, and is hidden automatically when there is only one release.
Sort releases by published date	Most recent first	The order the page arrives in. Oldest first suits an archive read front to back.
Search placeholder	Search by title…	Text inside the empty search box.
All categories label	All categories	The unfiltered entry in the category menu.
No results text	No press releases match your search.	Shown when a search or filter matches nothing.

With only a few releases, turn all three off — controls that filter and reorder six cards add clutter without helping.

Where the controls appear

The search box sits in the row beside your heading. The category filter and the sort order are in a popup behind the filter button next to it, which opens over the page and closes on Escape or a click outside — so the row stays short however many you turn on. The button carries a dot while a category or a non-default order is in effect, since the popup is closed most of the time.

Turn both the category filter and the sort control off and the button goes away with them.

Loading more releases

Setting	Default	What it does
Load the next releases	When the reader presses a button	The alternative, Automatically, as the reader scrolls, reveals the next batch as a visitor reaches the end of the list and hides the button. A browser that can’t detect the end of the list keeps the button.
Items per load	6	Releases shown per batch, 1–20. Also how many search covers before the next batch loads.
Button text	Show more	Unused while releases load on scroll.
Background	#0066cc
Text colour	#ffffff
Hover background	#0052a3
Hover text colour	#ffffff
Corner radius	6px	0–50px.

These four colours are real defaults, not inherited

Unlike Accent colour, the button colours ship with actual hex values. On a theme that isn’t blue-and-white they will look out of place until you set them to match. This is the setting most worth changing after install.

Loading on scroll sidesteps this entirely: with the button hidden, its colours never show.

Layout

Setting	Default	Range
Max width	0 (full width)	0–2000px
Padding top	40px	0–200px
Padding bottom	40px	0–200px
Padding left and right	20px	0–100px
Margin top	0	0–200px
Margin bottom	0	0–200px

Max width 0 means full width. If your theme already constrains page content, leave it at 0 and let the theme decide — setting both produces a narrower column than you expect.

Use padding for space inside the block’s background, margin for space between it and neighbouring sections.